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Mesopotamia By Maksym

By Maksym Derezyuk
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2370 BCE

    Sumer

    Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze ages, and arguably the first civilization in the world with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, Sumerian farmers were able to grow an abundance of grain and other crops, the surplus of which enabled them to settle in one place. Capital: Eridu. Governador: Gusur
  • 2533 BCE

    Sumer

    Sumer
    The Temple of Uruk
  • Period: 2370 BCE to 2230 BCE

    Akkadians

    Akkadian was the first ancient Semitic-speaking empire of Mesopotamia, centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region, also called Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia in the Bible. The empire united Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule. The Akkadian Empire exercised influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Anatolia, sending military expeditions as far south as Dilmun and Magan (modern Bahrain and Oman) in the Arabian Peninsula. Capital: Akkad. Governament: Monarchy.
  • 2300 BCE

    Akkadians

    Akkadians
    The Temple of Bel
  • Period: 2230 BCE to 1595 BCE

    Old Babylonia

    Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which contained at this time the minor administrative town of Babylon. Capital: Babylon. Government: Monarchy. Video:
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  • Period: 1450 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Hittites

    Hittites were an Ancient Anatolian people who established an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC. This empire reached its height during the mid-14th century BC under Suppiluliuma I, when it encompassed an area that included most of Anatolia as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. Capital: Hattusa. Governament: Absolute monarchy.
  • Period: 1305 BCE to 609

    Assyrians

    Assyria was a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant. It existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC in the form of the Assur city-state, until its lapse between 612 BC and 609 BC, spanning the Early to Middle Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age. Capital: Aššur, Nineveh. Governament: Monarchy.
  • Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE

    Neo-Babylonia

    The Neo-Babylonian Empire was a period of Mesopotamian history which began in 626 BC and ended in 539 BC. During the preceding three centuries, Babylonia had been ruled by their fellow Akkadian speakers and northern neighbours, Assyria. A year after the death of the last strong Assyrian ruler, Assurbanipal, in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire spiralled into a series of brutal civil wars. Babylonia rebelled under Nabopolassar. Same capital of Old Babylonia